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Pop singer Ed Sheeran staunchly defended himself on Tuesday against allegations that his hit ballad Thinking Out Loud ripped off the melody of Marvin Gaye’s classic song Let’s Get It On.

Amid mounting frustrations, British singer Ed Sheeran threatened he’d leave the music industry entirely if he were to lose an ongoing copyright lawsuit over his 2014 single Thinking Out Loud.

Ed Sheeran is used to performing in sold-out stadiums, but he traded that in on Thursday when he briefly played for a packed New York courtroom in an ongoing copyright lawsuit over Marvin Gaye’s soul classic Let’s Get It On.Sheeran, the first witness in his own defence, testified for about an hour and performed a fragment of his hit song in question, Thinking Out Loud. Sheeran has been in court this week as part of a lawsuit filed in 2017 by the heirs of a Let’s Get It On co-writer, Ed Townsend, who created the soulful song alongside Gaye. The lawsuit claims Sheeran, 32, and his co-writer, Amy Wadge, knowingly plagiarized the song’s iconic four-chord sequence.Sheeran has staunchly denied that he copied or was influenced by Let’s Get It On.On the stand, Sheeran discussed his songwriting process, which he said is inspired by his real life.

LOS ANGELES - Martha Stewart is mourning the death of six of her pet peacocks after she says they were killed by coyotes.Stewart shared the heartbreaking update Saturday via her Instagram, sharing with her 3.9 million followers that her birds were killed "in broad daylight."Stewart shared a video of one of the peacocks, Blue Boy, showing off his feathers with Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" playing in the background. "I do not have any idea how the Marvin Gaye music found its way to this sad post but when Blue Boy was alive it would have been perfectly appropriate.""The coyotes came in broad daylight and devoured him and five others including the magnificent White Boy," she wrote. "Any solutions for getting rid of six large and aggressive coyotes who have expensive tastes when it comes to poultry??"Stewart then shared she made some changes to the peacocks' home to quell any future coyote attacks."We are no longer allowing the peafowl out of their yard, we are enclosing the top of their large yard with wire fencing etc," Stewart said.It's unclear how many peacocks Stewart has at this time.

I'm Allergic To Dogs!, which will arrive June 24.Between the ages of 7-17, Wolf commuted from the Bay Area to Lake Tahoe almost weekly (and even lived there for a few years) to hone her ski racing skills. All the while, she was juggling multiple music projects -- from singing in a female "barbershop quartet-style" trio, to writing and performing songs around her hometown in a band with friends.

Rest assured there's nothing random about Michael McDonald's decision to release live covers of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" and the 1965 Burt Bacharach-Hal David penned Jackie DeShannon hit "What the World Needs Now Is Love," the latter of which is premiering below."We always end our evening with one of those two songs, or both," McDonald -- who's slated to inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Doobie Brothers on Nov. 7 -- tells Billboard from quarantine in his home near Santa Barbara, Calif.

Newcomer Jac Ross calls himself the “Faith Dealer.” One listen to his music and you’ll understand why. Already building buzz and a fan base with his first two singles, “It’s OK to Be Black” and “Saved,” Ross premieres the video for his latest single, “Questions.”Reminiscent of the social, cultural and political through-lines that connect predecessors such as Sam Cooke, Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye, Ross’ brand of message music is a welcome oasis of honesty, hope and love in a pandemic-stricken world.

Police were called after a popular singer took to his garden to entertain his neighbours during lockdown.

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